About This Course
This course is tailored to nurses at the bedside looking for a change. However, it will also be useful to nurses not at the bedside. In this course I’ll help you leverage your existing nursing skills and knowledge, without going back to school to land the next job you're looking for…ideally remote or with higher pay or BOTH!
An important note: Nurses leave the bedside for many, many reasons and each of them is personal. Additionally, what each person is looking for in a new role is also deeply unique.
This is a no-blame zone for nurses at the bedside or away from the bedside!
You may be looking for:
- Fully remote work or hybrid work
- A compressed work schedule
- No more night shift
- No more weekends
- Better compensation that actually matches your skillset
- Career growth
- A role where colleagues and leadership treat you with respect
- More autonomy
- To be able to put your kids on the bus each day
The list goes on and on . . .
Who is the Job Nurse?
Hello! I’m Jess, a nurse that’s worked in healthcare for 20 years. I’ve had roles in the healthcare field spanning clinical, administrative, leadership, strategy, and technology settings. What does this mean? It means I’ve been around the block a few times and I have the advantage of exposure to many career areas. More importantly, I left the bedside in 2016 and within a few years was working remotely and making six-figures in an average cost of living area.
When I made this career change there was nothing out there to help me understand:
- What to expect when leaving the bedside
- Exactly how to leave the bedside
- How to update my resume
- What jobs were available and where to look for them
- How to get a new job without going back to school
Instead, when I searched the internet all I found was the same list of jobs. A lot of them required going back to school. And others I was less interested in because they didn’t meet my needs at that particular time and season of my life. I didn’t want to be on the phone all day, go into the office daily, etc.
For that reason, I’ve put together a course called “Leaving the Bedside: A Career Change Workshop for Nurses” on Teachable to show nurses the available paths to a career beyond the bedside and how to plan and execute their career transition all the way down to updating your resume with the right language.
You may ask, why isn't everyone doing this? Well actually somewhere around 8% of nurses work in a setting category that the 2018 national nurse sample survey calls "other". Which makes sense considering the fact that healthcare is both the largest and the fastest growing work sector. There are just a whole ton of jobs out there that benefit from nursing expertise that aren’t direct patient care in inpatient, outpatient, clinic, home-care, school nursing, settings or in the academic setting. And many of these jobs are not nursing-related, they’re just healthcare related.
A barrier for nurses is that in nursing school, and nursing internships, and most nursing careers in the IP or OP setting, they don’t really offer you any exposure to these other career opportunities. I’m talking about careers like population health, clinical program management, program design, clinical strategy, quality improvement, healthcare tech, and clinical sales. All of these are jobs have high-potential for increased compensation, remote work, and flexible work-life balance. And they all love nurses! (Even if the job description doesn’t mention nurses).
What you would learn in this course
In the introduction I’m going to tell you a little bit about my background and my experience leaving the bedside and We’ll talk about myths about leaving the bedside. I encourage you not to skip this section, because it’s important to clear the air on these myths because they hold a lot of nurses back.
Then, I’ll walk you through the process and paths for pivoting your nursing career. This is an action-oriented course. I’m not talking about broad ideas. I’m laying out the action steps you need to take with concrete examples.